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Authors Peter H. Raven and George B. Johnson are accomplished scientists, researchers, and educators. Together, they have collaborated on four leading textbooks.
Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University-St. Louis. He oversees the Garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany-one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him several honors and awards, including a MacArthur fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.
George B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Washington University-St. Louis and a professor of genetics at the university's School of Medicine. He is a prolific author of life science texts and curriculum products in a variety of media. New to his list of works are the Explorations in Cell Biology, Metabolism, and Genetics CD-ROM and the new book How Scientists Think, both offered by WCB/McGraw-Hill. Johnson is acknowledged as an authority on population genetics and evolution variability, and he has published more than 50 research papers dealing with these and related topics. Visitors to the St. Louis Zoo can appreciate Johnson's work in The Living World, the educational center of which he is the founding director.
WCB/McGraw-Hill is proud to be associated with these eminent authors. And we are proud of the publishing values that, for more than a half-century in the business, have distinguished us as the number one life science publisher. We've applied our expertise and commitment to crafting what we believe to be the best edition yet of Biology.